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Breed size has no effect on gestation period All domestic rabbits are pregnant for 32 days, give or take a couple days

Hello everyone 👋 It’s been a few years but I’m glad to see the forum is still running and so many familiar names I still breed ”meat mutts” for my dogs raw diet but life happens and I stepped away from the group for awhile. I was feeling a bit nostalgic as my only house bunny is looking a...

Yes, I do this with most of my livestock The parents/breeders are allowed to be pets, get names, kids play with them, etc... but with the clear distinction that their babies are food. Sometimes defective ones get to pets and are not expected to produce for the family, we’ve got a few with bent...

Possibly, you’d need to test breed to confirm I think it looks like a chocolate torted sable magpie rather than lilac (both chocolate and blue)

I’m in Southern Ontario (hardiness zone 6) and in the the winter I mainly feed grains (barley, wheat, oats, corn, BOSS) and hay with a high percent of alfalfa or clover and offer poorer quality grass for roughage. I breed all year and occasionally I do need to offer commercial pellets to a...

Black chinchilla steel

The darker patches

Yup, REW can genetically be ANYTHING A BEW, a broken a opal, a tort, etc... - every colour is hidden by REW Genetically a REW = ?? ?? cc ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? Only by its parents and offspring colours can you fill in the question marks

Can you post pictures of the parents ? I see agouti, full colour, dilute, so your options are opal, steel opal, harlequinized opal

Their milk does change Early in lactation it is much fattier and slowly waters down Another option is to set up a second nest and pull out the 4 fattest/ biggest milk bellies each evening so the thinner kits have a chance to fill up.

I did Always eager to educate, I would go over, step by step, what I look for in a new rabbit (or any new pet actually) in the hopes they'd do the same if they ever bring a second rabbit into the home. I've too many horror stories of bunnies I've bred catching Upper Respitory Infections...

Stuff like this is why I no longer sell rabbits as pets

I scrounge the dump for those little wire trays used in mini fridges. Fold them in half, put something on the ends so the rabbits cannot climb in and viola, hay rack

Ear carriage is not dominant It is a polygenic trait that has several genes involving position on the head ("crown"), strength of tendons, ligaments, cartilage etc.... Even the kit with lopped ears has a poor crown so I'm surprised upright ears haven't happened more often in their litters...

Black tort /sooty fawn Siamese sable Black Siamese sable Siamese sable